Performer Magazine

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Performer Magazine is an American music magazine aimed at independent musicians. It has been in publication since 1991 and is distributed nationally throughout the United States. The magazine focuses primarily on musicians who are unsigned and on small labels, and their success in a DIY environment. According to its website, it is dedicated to promoting lesser-known talent and being the first to introduce its readership to promising new artists. Performer is currently a free publication that also covers the following areas of the independent music industry: promoters, instruments, music business advice, artists, and reviews. Source

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Performer Magazine releases its latest issue, featuring a cover story on Django Django (new album, Marble Skies, out now! )INSIDE you’ll find info on recording drums, mixing with headphones and studio monitors, plus more on the future of digital royalites.Read the issue in print, find it at this link or open the interactive digital version below.

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“I’m thrilled to see Elixir is now offering extended range guitar sets. I’ve been gigging with my 7-string guitar almost exclusively for several years now. As a working musician, I’m constantly gigging or doing session work, and not having to change my strings every week is very convenient to my lifestyle,” said Mike Green, guitarist and producer.

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Welcome to the first in a four-part series that will provide real-world advice for setting up your home recording studio to record a full drum kit, co-presented by Performer Magazine and Audio-Technica. In this installment, we’ll take a closer look at the best microphones for recording drums in your home studio, what kinds of specific microphones are ideal on each part of the drum kit, plus some basic tips for recording the cleanest drum tracks possible.

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Can your stage show use mics that cut through the mix, sound more dynamic and show of your live sound in a better light? Well, we’ve got just the thing! Our friends at Blue are gonna hook up one lucky band with some great new live mics from their enCORE series – which includes the 100, 200 and 300 vocal mics and the 100i instrument mic. We’ll work with the winning band to put a package of mics together depending on the size of your group and your particular needs.

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The availability of free AudioThing software Valve Exciter, Valve Filter and SR-88 coincides with a 50% discount off AudioThing’s other plug-ins and sample libraries. Registered Focusrite hardware users can access the free software and discount from their Focusrite accounts. Valve Exciter is a Harmonic Enhancer plug-in with vintage valve emulation. The exciter section features hand-tuned filters with the ability to sweep the centre frequencies via the Harmonics knob.

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Shure today announced its new podcast series, “Shure Signal Path.” Shure will host members of the music industry community on the bi-weekly podcast—ranging from engineers who work behind the scenes to the musicians we love—to share their stories and shed light on the occasional studio secret that makes live music so amazing.

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Hardly Art is pleased to announce the return of L.A. shredders La Luz, whose new album Floating Features will arrive on LP, CD, digital, and cassette Friday, May 11th. Propulsive first single “Cicada” offers a taste of Floating Features‘ blissed-out hi-fi sound–stream it now and head over to NPR Music to watch director Ryan D. Browne’s soap opera-satirizing music video below. Pre-orders for Floating Features are available now, including limited edition cream-colored vinyl.

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Inspired while surfing one day and watching waves rolling in on the San Diego coast, Powers conceptualized the V-shaped bracing design. It gave him the idea to position two longitudinal braces on the soundboard of the guitar in a V formation, with the top of the V splayed along either side of the soundhole, instead of arranging the main support braces as a criss-crossed X.

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There are so many ways to do personal (headphone) practicing, but getting a band to practice in a headphone environment is problematic at best. Yamaha has hooked us up with their unique SessionCake unit that aims to solve this. So, it’s quite small and ridiculously easy to use, with four big knobs to deal with on the top panel.

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